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Not just that, but models that are “independently trained” by a community of people using some kind of distributed p2p method.

If this LLM stuff is as important as it is made out to be (and I think it is), it is absolutely crucial that it isn’t controlled by just a bunch of large corporations and tech oligarchs. A world where everybody needs LLM’s and the only source is from gigantic tech companies would be incredibly distopian.

Plus I seriously doubt the true innovation on these things will happen until the “little guy” can train and infer their own models. Right now these things are playing it way to safe. We should be reading articles about people using home built LLMs to do crazy shit that sticks it to “The Man”. That’s how transformative technology changes things. It challenges the status quo. The only “quo” that is being challenged right now is some boring mega tech company is peeing in some other mega tech company’s cheerios. Yawn. Wake me up when this technology threatens the entire fucking system (and not fake “AGI will take over all white collar jobs”… that is just corporate propaganda).

… I mean remember Napster and all those file sharing companies? Or the million iterations of Pirate Bay? Where is the LLM equivalent of that? Where is the “Linux” of LLM’s that freaks out all the tech companies? Or dark web of LLM’s that attract the eye of every three letter agency in the world? Where is the revolution? It’s just a bunch of huge tech companies safely jerking each other off wearing three layers of protection and their corporate lawyers on speed dial. How completely boring.